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Word of the Day: Imbolc [EP 98]

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Kids & Family, Performing Arts, Arts, Education For Kids, Visual Arts

4.89.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Have you heard of the Celtic midwinter of holiday Imbolc? This is the indigenous knowledge that has been suppressed.

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0:00.0

Now, what we didn't get to do today was we did not do our word of the day. And we have a different

0:05.7

kind of word of the day today, uh, because we're going to learn something more than just like

0:12.9

regular vocabulary. All right. So I don't know if you all know about the Celts, but the Celtic

0:19.7

people are the indigenous people of Ireland,

0:24.4

and I believe Scotland, but let me just confirm. Let me just confirm. And I feel like,

0:37.4

hold on, Jesus Christ, no, I don't mean the Celtics.

0:44.9

The Celtic people are a diverse collection of Iron Age tribes originating in Central Europe around 1,200 BC.

0:53.4

So these were not, they were not just in Ireland. They were in Spain.

0:57.0

They were in England. They were in Scotland and Wales. And when we learn about the druids, right?

1:02.7

So that's, druids had wands. Wands made of Hollywood. Get it? Hollywood. There is a word that is used by the Celtic people who are people of the land.

1:19.1

So these were people who understood the magic of the land. There's people who understood

1:22.9

the healing of the land. Their language was Gaelic and their word for this time was imbulk.

1:31.2

So that's our word of the day, imbulk. Okay. And imbulk comes from the old Irish imbolg and it means

1:40.2

in the belly and it holds the fertile energy of goddess Bridget. She was the protector,

1:46.8

she was the healer, the storyteller, artist, and nurturer. And during this time, we're being

1:53.9

called to honor our bodies as instruments for our authentic expression, which also aligns, by the

2:00.6

way, with what wes, by the way,

2:01.1

with what we are experiencing in the sky right now,

2:04.8

because that is very much the vibe of the full moon in Leo,

2:09.9

this wolf moon, I mean, this snow moon,

2:12.3

is our authentic expression, our emotions,

2:16.7

and really coming into a, again, coming into, we're

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